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TIFF 2012: More movies, Galas announced

The Toronto International Film Festival will close on an inspirational note with British director Paul Andrew Williams’s Song for Marion, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Terence Stamp and Gemma Arterton.

Described as “a feel-good, heart-warming story” about an elderly couple who have different thoughts on a local choir, the movie was one of three additional Galas (making 20 in total) and 18 Special Presentation films announced Tuesday morning, with eight world premieres among them, adding to the anticipation as TIFF kicks off for 11 days starting Sept. 6.

Julianne Moore, seen accepting an award for the TV movie Game Change, will be seen in a movie coming to TIFF, What Maisie Knew. (Vince Bucci / AP)

The final tally for Special Presentation films is 70 with 48 bragging World Premiere status. Among the new titles announced is Paul Thomas Anderon’s hotly anticipated The Master, staring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix, Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier’s (In a Better World) Love is All You Need, starring Pierce Brosnan, Brain De Palma’s erotic thriller, Passion and Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow.

What Maisie Knew: Scott McGehee and David Siegel: Gala, World Premiere:

Based on the Henry James novella but set in modern times as 7-year-old Maisie is caught in a custody battle between her rock icon mother and her father. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan

TIFF also announced its Wavelengths program will be expanding in to 47 titles after pairing it with the previously separate Visions program. The avant-garde and experimental works includes Canadian director Denis Côté’s Bestiaire and When Night Falls by Ying Liang, as well as a quartet of short film programs.

Also announced were 62 international titles on the Contemporary World Cinema Program, which includes a speakers series with experts from the University of Toronto’s Munk School for Global Affairs, including Michael Ignatieff.

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